From Upasana Das’ article for Wallpaper*:
‘A [term] for gay people at the time was twilight people,’ says Tress, dialling in from his studio on a mid-winter Friday morning. ‘You couldn’t tell your family, you couldn’t tell your employer – especially if you worked for the government or in education.’ He recalls his parents sending him to a psychiatrist when he was in high school. ‘Of course, he told me being gay was bad, against the law, unnatural and that I should get a girlfriend,’ he laughs. ‘Which didn’t really work out.’
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